The Duel at Silver Creek
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Release date August 1, 1952 (1952-08-01) Cast (Luke Cromwell (The Silver Kid)), (Opal Lacy), (Marshal Lightning Tyrone), (Jane 'Dusty' Fargo), (Rod Lacy), (Johnny Sombrero) Similar movies Audie Murphy and Eugene Iglesias appear in The Duel at Silver Creek and Tumbleweed |
The Duel at Silver Creek is a 1952 American Technicolor Western film directed by Don Siegel; his first film in the Western genre. It starred Audie Murphy, Faith Domergue, Stephen McNally and Susan Cabot. It was the first time Murphy had appeared in a film where he played a character who was good throughout the movie. The working titles of the film were Claim Jumpers and Hair Trigger Kid.
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Luke Cromwell, aka the "Silver Kid" (Audie Murphy), loses his father to mining claim jumpers. He is deputised by Marshal Lightning Tyrone (Stephen McNally) of Silver City, who wants to defeat the claim jumpers. The two men fall for different women, Tyrone for the treacherous Opal Lacey (Faith Domergue), who is secretly in league with the claim jumpers, and Cromwell with tomboy Dusty Fargo (Susan Cabot) who pursues Lightning.
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